A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone